WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Gov. Chris Christie's day on the stump for Mitt Romney got off to a windy, chilly start here as the men, joined by the Republican presidential hopeful's wife Ann, addressed several hundred people outside a grocery store.

In his brief remarks, Christie reprised his role as flame-thrower as he introduced the former Massachusetts governor. Romney is in a final push to rally voters before Tuesday’s caucuses.

“Let’s be real clear, President Barack Obama came out to Iowa three years ago and he talked to you about hope and change,” Christie said. “Well let me tell you after three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless and we need Mitt Romney to bring us back, to bring America back.”

He continued to talk over a handful of people in the crowd who loudly chanted “We are the 99 percent,” before they were escorted away. “If you don’t do what you’re supposed to do for Mitt Romney on Tuesday,” Christie said, “I will be back, Jersey-style, people. I will be back.”

Romney told a shortened version of the speech he delivered a few weeks ago on a trip to Parsippany to pick up $1.2 million for his campaign war chest.

“We finally have to have someone go to Washington who will do what Chris Christie is doing in New Jersey, which is to finally bring sanity to the people there, to work across the aisle,” Romney said, surveying a scene dotted with American flags.

Christie is scheduled to meet with voters in Cedar Rapids and Dubuque later today.